Conjecture Institute is honored to announce our Senior Scientist, Oxford physicist Chiara Marletto! Dr. Marletto leads a new research group that is developing constructor theory, a new theory that aims to express all laws of physics in terms of possible and impossible tasks.

Refuting Zcash FUD (thread):

Master the sciences, master the arts. Become a polymath and a polyglot. A hacker and a pianist. An entrepreneur and a poet. A mathematician and a writer. An investor and an athlete. A physicist and a historian. Embrace the Greco-Roman ideal of being a well-balanced man.

The West is less optimistic today than it has been in the past. This is an error that Conjecture Institute Conjecture Institute exists to correct. New essay: The West, Institutions, and Applied Optimism (link below)

You are NOT ready for what Dimitri Vallein is cooking. Remember the name.

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baby steps. Live from NEXTIS headquarter

Startup idea: self-defense weapons against humanoid robots. Guns don't work (it could have steel plates, for example). Water doesn't work (they will inevitably become waterproof to do tasks outside). EMP weapons are illegal in most places. Fire is impractical, it's hard to put

Polymarket as an insurance platform for DeFi protocols: 1. Protocol team asks the Polymarket team to create a market for "Will a vulnerability be exploited in <protocol name> by Dec 31st 2027?" 2. Protocol users, and even the team behind it, can hedge a hack by buying "Yes",

eXo Try the following by Maxime Desalle : maxdesalle.com/understanding-…

We’d love to use Polymarket as a real-time insurance layer for Sablier: “Will a vulnerability be exploited in Sablier's contracts by Dec 31, 2027?” Our users could hedge against hacks by buying “Yes”, while others bet “No.” Polymarket, how do we make this happen?

People think Bitcoin makes them independent of the state. In reality, it’s the most government-friendly store of value ever invented: a transparent, permanent ledger of every transaction. Zcash fixes that.